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Seventy-eight percent of senior Capitol Hill aides believe Republicans will regain the House in 2022, up 12 percent from April, according to a poll released Monday. The Punchbowl News poll also included responses by party, which showed 57 percent of Democrat Hill staffers believe Republicans will regain control. Additionally, 99 percent of the Republicans on the Hill believe their party will regain control of the House, ending House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) short four-year reign of trying to push through her radical, one-sided agenda. In comparison, during an April poll from Punchbowl, an overwhelming majority (66 percent) also said they...

Emmanuel Macron was slapped across the face and told to 'f*** off' as he greeted voters during a walkabout in France today. The assailant took the French President by the arm, appearing to stop him for a chat, before shouting: 'Down with Macronia' ('A Bas La Macronie') as he struck his face...Bodyguards quickly seized upon the man and bundled him to the ground before dragging him away, as a member of Macron's security detail pulled the president to safety. No motive was given but a police spokesman said that one of the men arrested 'described himself as an anarchist.' The...

A picture is worth a thousand words. The good news? Job openings soared to an all-time high of 9.3 million. The bad news? There are 2.64 million more job openings than people who want a job. It would seem that employers will have to pay a premium to attract those who claim to want to work, but aren’t in the labor force. Why is Powell And The Fed keeping so much monetary stimulus going? And why does Biden want to pump $8 trillion into an already overheated economy?

Major media and government websites, including the White House, New York Times, Reddit and Amazon were temporarily down on Tuesday after being hit by a global outage blamed on a glitch from cloud computing services provider Fastly.The widespread outages around 1000 GMT also hit the UK government website, CNN and the BBC before resuming services more than an hour later."Error 503 Service Unavailable" and "connection failure" messages appeared on several websites, later blamed on a problem at San Francisco-based firm Fastly, which scrambled to restore sites.The company offers a service to websites around the world to speed up loading time...

Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” described the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill “like the Super Bowl of domestic terrorism.” Discussing a newly released U.S. Senate bipartisan report on January 6, Klobuchar said, “We have outlined what is common knowledge in our report about President Trump’s speech, about encouraging them to march down from the mall and the like. One reason I believe we need a 9/11 type commission and investigation is we felt our jurisdiction and goal was clear. We wanted to get immediate recommendations to help with funding, to help with getting bills...

Gives it to them with both barrels. This is getting to be a bona fide national movement.

The 17-year “Brood X” cicadas are hatching in such high numbers that they’re being picked up by weather radar in Virginia. “THIS is not rain, not ground clutter,” NBC meteorologist Lauryn Ricketts tweeted on Monday. “So likely CICADAS being picked up by the radar beam.” Pallozzi said the NWS has a weather radar located in Sterling, Virginia, in the same region as the radar map that Ricketts posted, and explained that the beams the radar devices send out rise the further they travel from the machine. So the beams are picking up the newly emerged cicadas on the ground near...

Former Trump administration National Security Adviser John Bolton said Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that President Joe Biden’s upcoming meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, their first meeting since Biden became president, is “premature” because Biden does not fully understand what his objectives with Russia are. Mitchell asked, “What can President Biden expect to gain in this meeting with Vladimir Putin?”

The video provides some dramatic examples of Chinese public suppression tactics being implemented in Australia as the public begins to resist lockdowns, violations of rights, and senseless Covid policies.Police in Victoria ‘crossed a very dangerous and scary line’ - YouTubeOne example is a group of police delivering a letter from the police commissioner to a journalist at his home at night about a protest to be held the following day (chilling dissent). SideNote: Below, the image from the video is blury but shows lockdown rates of death in US states up to March 31. Blue states were locked down -...

Police are looking for a man who was caught on surveillance fleeing after he tried to rape a woman on a New York City sidewalk Saturday morning. The 27-year-old woman was walking on the sidewalk at 7am in Manhattan's Midtown neighborhood when the man grabbed her from behind. The suspect grabbed the woman by the throat with both of his hands and pushed her against a storefront on East 33rd Street. Police said the suspect then pulled down his pants and tried to rape the woman. The woman fought back against the suspect during a brief struggle, according to police....

Ahead of the bishops' spring assembly, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington has appointed Father Jorge Torres, a priest of the Diocese of Orlando, Florida, to help implement a planned multiyear National Eucharistic Revival. Msgr. Jeffrey D. Burrill, USCCB general secretary, announced the appointment of Father Torres as a specialist for the Secretariat for Evangelization and Catechesis June 7 and thanked Orlando Bishop John G. Noonan for releasing the priest for service to the USCCB. In his new role, effective July 12, Father Torres "joins the conference as the Secretariat for Evangelization and Catechesis begins the promotion of...

I have been away from my computer for a few days to speak at a conference, so here is a revised and updated version of an article that I wrote several years ago. It is a list of 45 reasons why I believe the Pre-Trib Rapture is right (save it so you can give it to Mid-Trib believers, Post-Trib believers, unsure believers, etc.). 1) There are no passages in either the Old Testament or the New Testament that say the Church will go through the Tribulation Period. 2) The Tribulation Period is called the “Time of Jacob’s Trouble” [The time...

By Jim Stratman Published: Jun. 8, 2021 at 8:52 AM PDT|Updated: 1 hour ago LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Governor Andy Beshear is dropping COVID-19 restrictions across the state on June 11 thanks, in large part, to the vaccination effort in the state. However, just because you get the vaccine doesn’t mean your completely immune to catching the virus again. It happened to one Kentucky woman after she caught COVID-19 and was fully vaccinated. The vaccines that are out there are extremely effective at what they do, they keep you from getting very sick and dying from COVID-19. That said, there...

CHICAGO -- The Illinois General Assembly passed a sweeping immigration bill that would close all immigrant detention centers in the state and severely restrict how local law enforcement can collaborate with federal immigration agents.

The Danish Parliament has passed a new law that will allow the government to deport asylum seekers to countries outside of the European Union to have their cases considered abroad. The legislation is widely seen as a first step toward moving the country's asylum screening process beyond Danish borders."Denmark is committed to finding new and sustainable solutions to the present migration and refugee challenges that affect countries of origin, transit and destination. The current asylum system is unfair and unethical by incentivizing children, women and men to embark on dangerous journeys along the migratory routes, while human traffickers earn fortunes."...

Famous Actor Regrets How He Raised His Baby Boomer Kids - YouTube Autogenerated transcript below for those who don't want to watch the video (lacks punctuation, sometimes provides incorrect words) I think that I and I assume millions of others of my generationwanted some of the things that we did for our childrenand our wives and ourselves.Was explained by the fact that we were products ofwhat is called the depression. Sadly, they saymany young people today don't even know what that term means.It means that everybody was poor.Statistically almost everybody was poor for about 10 years.Starting with the stock...

Police are hunting a man who video shows pepper sprayed a couple in a random unprovoked attack as they walked in Manhattan, in the latest in a spate of incidents that have driven up crime in New York. Surveillance video shows the couple - an 18-year-old woman and her 19-year-old male partner - walking down 8th avenue in the trendy Chelsea neighborhood. A man walks towards them and as he passes he quickly raises a can to their eyes.

“Sure I would … I would certainly consider Ron,” Trump, 74, told Fox Business‘ Stuart Varney in a phone interview Monday. “I was at the beginning of Ron,” he said of the 42-year-old former Navy officer who graduated both Yale and Harvard Law School. “I was the first one to endorse him when he came out as a congressman that a lot of people didn’t know, and my endorsement helped him tremendously,” Trump said. “And I know him very well. He’s a great guy,” Trump added.

Adults can claim a complimentary joint of marijuana in Washington state this week when they receive a COVID-19 vaccine shot. The Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board announced Monday that the promotion, called "Joints for Jabs," was effective immediately and would run through July 12. During the afforded time period, state-licensed cannabis retailers are permitted to give one free pre-rolled joint to customers who are 21 or older when they receive their first or second dose of a COVID-19 vaccine at an active, on-site vaccination clinic. Customers can only claim the complimentary joint from the retail location during the same...

The New York Police Department and the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives created a joint intelligence center that will seek to crack down on the illegal gun trade following a surge of shootings in the city. The center will use new technology and traditional detective work to trace the source of weapons involved in crimes, said John DeVito, the ATF’s special agent in charge of New York State, said at a press conference Tuesday with Mayor Bill de Blasio. “It’s not a matter of if, but when we’ll come calling,” DeVito said.